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Updating databases with the wizard

Update your IBM Lotus Connections 2.0.1 databases using the database wizard.

Before applying updates, back up your databases. For more information, see the Backing up Lotus Connections topic.

Ensure that the forum content store is accessible from the database server before starting this task.

Follow these steps to update your Lotus Connections 2.0.1 databases to Lotus Connections 2.5 databases.

As an alternative to using the wizard, you can update the databases manually. For more information, see the Updating databases manually topic.

To update your databases with the database wizard...

1. Stop the WebSphere Application Server instances that are hosting Lotus Connections 2.0.1.

2. Optional: If the database servers and Lotus Connections are on different systems, copy the database wizard to the system that hosts your Lotus Connections databases.

3. Log in as the database administrator.

4. Change to the where the database wizard is stored. The default location is the Wizards on the installation media.

5. Enter the following command and then click Next:

   • AIX or Linux ./dbWizard.sh

   • WindowsdbWizard.bat

6. Select the Upgrade task and click Next.

7. Specify the database type, database instance, and the installation location, and then click Next. The wizard detects the current database version.

8. Select the databases that you want to update and click Next:

   • Activities: OPNACT

   • Blogs: BLOGS

   • Communities: SNCOMM

   • Dogear: DOGEAR

   • Home page: HOMEPAGE

   • Profiles: PEOPLEDB

   Notes

   • The database wizard disables the selection of any features that were not released in Lotus Connections 2.0.1. If any feature databases were created in an earlier release of Lotus Connections than release 2.0.1, update that database using the Lotus Connections 2.0.1 database wizard.

9. If you are updating the Blogs, Communities, or Profiles database, provide the database port, administrator ID, and administrator password for the database.

   If you are updating Oracle databases, you need to enter the passwords for each newly-created application user.

10. If you are updating the Communities feature, provide the file path to the forum content store. The content store can be a network share folder or a local folder that you can copy from the WebSphere Application Server node to the database node.

11. Review the Pre Configuration Task Summary to ensure that the values you entered are correct. To change any values, click Back to edit the value. To continue, click Update.

12. After the update task finishes, review the Post Configuration Task Summary panel and, if necessary, click View Log to open the log file. Click Finish to exit the wizard.

13. Create databases for the Files and Wikis features: run the database wizard again, select the Create database option, and then select the Files and Wikis options. For more information, see the Create databases with the database wizard topic.

Updating databases in-place

Updating Lotus Connections 2.5

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